Joint Hearing on GPS Reliability:A Review of Aviation Industry Performance, Safety Issues
and Avoiding Potential New and Costly Government Burden

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Subcommittees on Aviation and
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
June 23, 2011

The committee received testimony from federal government and industry witnesses regarding LightSquared's mobile broadband internet infrastructure plans and concerns with GPS interference associated with those plans; the possible impacts on GPS reliability, NextGen, and aviation job creation; and the potential remedies to GPS interference.

Senior federal officials and industry representatives warned that the GPS interference from LightSquared's system could disrupt military, civil, and commercial operations nationwide, including aviation, shipping, search and rescue, E911, farming, and communications.

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